Gold Plated Stater South Ferriby Legs / Transitional Two Contemporary Counterfeit

Contemporary counterfeits of Corieltauvian staters are well-documented, and the South Ferriby type attracted imitators precisely because the tribe's coinage already circulated across a wide geographic corridor from the Humber down into the east Midlands. A plated bronze core with gold wash could pass at speed in a market transaction — most recipients were not metallurgists. The "Legs" variety sits within the transitional sequence between the earlier uninscribed issues and those bearing partial inscriptions, a period of administrative flux that likely made quality control of the currency less rigorous and counterfeiting proportionally easier.